Zero Fire: Toaplan Arcade Garage

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Zero Fire: Toaplan Arcade Garage
System(s): PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
Publisher: M2
Developer: M2
Licensor: Tatsujin, Extreme, Sega
Developer(s) of original games: Toaplan, Naxat, NCS, NEC Avenue
Genre: Compilation, Shooting
Number of players: 1-2
Official in-game languages: 日本語
Release Date RRP Code JP ▼ 2023-07-20 ¥3,9603,960 HAC-A734B-JPN JP ▼ 2023-07-20 ¥3,9603,960 CUSA-33238

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Zero Fire: Toaplan Arcade Garage (ゼロファイアー -TOAPLAN ARCADE GARAGE-) is a compilation of shooting games from Toaplan made by M2 for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, released as part of the Toaplan Arcade Garage series under the M2 Shot Triggers label. It includes the Arcade versions of Zero Wing and Hellfire. The physical version of the compilation also includes several console versions of the first two games as a bonus plus the Arcade game Horror Story (known as Demon's World outside Japan), although the digital versions only offers them as a paid DLC bundle. It was originally released in 2023, only in Japan.

Zero Fire: Toaplan Arcade Garage marks the first time M2 included games previously published by NEC Avenue on PC Engine and CD-ROM² systems after buying them from Lightweight, the owner of Interchannel IPs, in July 2023. As a result, M2 owns the publishing rights of Fantasy Zone and Space Harrier for the PC Engine, as seen in certain GameCenter CX episodes.

Games included

• Zero Wing (Arcade)
• Zero Wing (Arcade, 2 player version)
• Zero Wing (Japanese Sega Mega Drive version)
• Zero Wing (European Sega Mega Drive version)
• Zero Wing (CD-ROM² version, re-released by the guidelines of Article 67-2 from Japanese Copyright Law)
• Hellfire (Arcade)
• Hellfire (Arcade, 2 player version)
• Hellfire (Japanese Sega Mega Drive version, licensed by Extreme)
• Hellfire (Sega Genesis version, licensed by Extreme)
• Hellfire S (CD-ROM² version, publishing ownership of M2)
• Horror Story (Arcade)
• Horror Story (Arcade, version B)
• Horror Story (Super CD-ROM² version, publishing ownership of M2)

The Sega Mega Drive versions of Zero Wing (both European and Japanese variants) and Hellfire (American and Japanese variants, previously co-owned by Toaplan and Masaya and now co-owned by Tatsujin and Extreme) is included within the compilation. The Sega logo was keep intact in the ROMs, as well the inclusion of the "Mega Drive" and "Genesis" logos in their regional box arts available to see in Visual Gallery option.

Downloadable content

Main article: Zero Fire: Toaplan Arcade Garage/Downloadable content.

Production Credits

Game Development Library

• Executive Producer: Naoki Horii

M2 Cross Platform Game Library

• Distributors: Kousuke Uenaka [SEGA], Tomoaki Ishidao [SEGA]

Development Support

• License Supervisor: Masahiro Yuge [TATSUJIN Co., Ltd.], Tatsuya Uemura [TATSUJIN Co., Ltd.], Koetsu Kusaka (Iwabuchi) [TATSUJIN Co., Ltd.], Yasuko Akiyama [extreme], SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS INC.
• Special Thanks: Yosuke Okunari [SEGA], Miho Hayashi [TATSUJIN Co., Ltd.]

• メガドライブおよびGenesisは株式会社セガの登録商標または商標です。

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In-game credits

Physical scans

PlayStation 4 version

PlayStation 4, JP

Nintendo Switch version

Nintendo Switch, JP

External links

• Official website (Japanese)

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